Things that should be taught in school

I am 30 years old and have learned quite a few life lessons the hard way. I can't help but think I would have been way better off if I had been taught some practical skills in school. Like:

Personal Finance- I have studied this a lot on my own due to personal interest but I see so many of my peers getting into ENORMOUS debt. No hope of ever accumulating any wealth, except perhaps winning the lottery. Sad.

Getting Married-In a lot of cases it doesn't make sense to get married! So why do we do it?

Having kids- Ditto, no one ever tells you how much your life will change. Be sure you really want kids.

What else do you guys think they should teach in school?

More about drugs.. and better about drugs.. a cheesy ass educational video just don't cut it.. kids need to see face to face with what some hard drugs can do to you. Plus they also need some truth about cannabis.

Just generally how to handle day to day situations.. school seems to be fuckin useless at arming people for life.. it's all about workplace.


lol ey up.. curveball champion *bows down* :smokin:

First aid should be compulsory

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Practical skills that could rebuild America's industrial strength and stop the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to foreign countries.

The teaching of all subjects should be improved, including communication skills.

interpersonal skills
conflict resolution
sex ed that really teaches you what you need to know
without a doubt more financial stuff such as how to use a credit card without screwing yourself over, the stock market, ect.

Conflict resolution
Emotional expression (identifying feelings and expressing them constructively)
At least one second language (to benefit the brain, not to accommodate immigrants)
Real sex ed that includes more than abstinence preaching
Financial management
Applied communications (how to write practical stuff, not just English papers)
Community service ed (to encourage kids to routinely take on service projects)
Physical education and nutrition
CPR, Heimlich, and basic first aid
Basic home and family living (formerly home economics) to prep for family life. Would include budgeting, cooking, basic marriage and parenting prep, etc.

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Originally Posted by birdgirl73

Conflict resolution
Emotional expression (identifying feelings and expressing them constructively)
At least one second language (to benefit the brain, not to accommodate immigrants)
Real sex ed that includes more than abstinence preaching
Financial management
Applied communications (how to write practical stuff, not just English papers)
Community service ed (to encourage kids to routinely take on service projects)
Physical education and nutrition
CPR, Heimlich, and basic first aid
Basic home and family living (formerly home economics) to prep for family life. Would include budgeting, cooking, basic marriage and parenting prep, etc.

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Nice list...
Some kind of self defense would be a good idea too...
I wonder why this kind of teaching hasn't been broached by our school sysyem...with the amount of repeated teachings in schools that goes on..there is definitely time for these subjects. I am sure it is just the man keeping us down. LOL

no one thinks music is important.. hmm I've always heard music was one of the best ways to help the brain specaily with math.

and physical activity is huge, i think now they have this new program in elementry schools were they make the kids do jumping jacks and shit for 15 mins everday. I bet that actually really helps those sorta unmotivated kids who would ussaly just sit out during gym and gain weight. I wish they had had that when i was a kid

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Originally Posted by birdgirl73

Conflict resolution
Emotional expression (identifying feelings and expressing them constructively)
At least one second language (to benefit the brain, not to accommodate immigrants)
Real sex ed that includes more than abstinence preaching
Financial management
Applied communications (how to write practical stuff, not just English papers)
Community service ed (to encourage kids to routinely take on service projects)
Physical education and nutrition
CPR, Heimlich, and basic first aid
Basic home and family living (formerly home economics) to prep for family life. Would include budgeting, cooking, basic marriage and parenting prep, etc.

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It amazes me how some kids can graduate from highschool knowing how to do complex calculus problems, but who don't know how to balance a check book. All of the classes you listed are way more important to take than calclus and physics. (Although depending on the person those could be more important) But still for someone like me it would have been nice learning the things I had to learn outside of school, when I was in school for soooo many hours and days weeks months years, and I never payed any attention. Now that highschool is done I feel like I wasted a lot of time. But it's okay I love to learn, just not the way that they teach in school.

Cannabis.com should start it's own school.

I think music is important, too! I just didn't think of it, and to be honest, I think of that in the same way I do about art enrichment/fine arts ed and team sports involvement--as something parents take care of automatically. But, of course, they don't always do that. Music's very important for brain development.

Self-defense is a great idea, too! Wish I'd thought of that as well.

I think schools should teach more topical issues earlier on, real shit that's happening in the World like famine and disease and poverty. Tupac was right in what he said.

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Originally Posted by MegaOctane12

I think schools should teach more topical issues earlier on, real shit that's happening in the World like famine and disease and poverty. Tupac was right in what he said.

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Exactly.

Music.

Evolution unhindered by creationism or ID or whatever it is these days.

How about mandatory logic classes? That seems sorely absent in much of society these days

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Originally Posted by MegaOctane12

I think schools should teach more topical issues earlier on, real shit that's happening in the World like famine and disease and poverty. Tupac was right in what he said.

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We're raising kids that dont care whats going on in the world. I think thats a really scary prospect. My favorite teachers in school were always the ones who would bring up an issue or current event and just ask us what we thought about it. More teachers should encourage kids to have their own educated beliefs about the world.
I had to have 60 hours of community service in school but everyone would bs it and just help teachers after school for an hour and have the teacher write down 4 hours. I think that you should have to do something that really helps the community.
I think music and other arts are really important. Sadly thats where most of the public school budget cuts are targeted at.

BTW this was a great thread idea

Life Skills
most useful class i ever had

I also think it should be mandatory to learn how govornment works (or doesn't).
I think if the youth masses knew generation after generation how the elite and corporations are fucking up the whole world they would become active and vote earlier.

thats probably true but it would be a very hard topic to teach unbaisily. Many teachers would then just teach there own views on their students and at such at such a young age you would believe what your teacher is saying without realling proving it to yourself. It would be better to teach students to always be warey of information and teach them how to responsibly disect the validity of information

on second though, there needs to be better teaching of History. Too many kids could care less about the subject, and that is truly a frightening thought. If we do not learn from the past, we'll be forever doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

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I also think it should be mandatory to learn how govornment works (or doesn't).

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it's taught, it's called Government/Economics, required senior year material

Better Sex Ed....teaching of Homosexuality and AIDS etc etc

Gardening.

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Originally Posted by Staurm

Gardening.

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Imagine, competitive gardening! There could be a school team that competes against other teams, and it could be judged by pros. Sweet!:jointsmile:

Bogarting and saliva control...

That guys don't really want to be with you forever if you're putting out on first date..

I dunno, I think most of this stuff is experience stuff, not stuff you can learn in a book

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Originally Posted by rebgirl420

I dunno, I think most of this stuff is experience stuff, not stuff you can learn in a book

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I'm with you Reb,,,school is for the basics...

The Ras TafarI movement.

Mandatory classic rock listening class.

For the past 3 years in high school i was in this program at my school called the finance academy and in the academy we learned about credit cards and personal finance and the stock market and bonds and stuff of that nature. I think that I have an edge now on the people that weren't in the academy

They should teach the truth about the Cannabis plant and marijuana use. That's what the fuck they need to teach in school, like in health and classes that deal with plants or something :).

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Originally Posted by orangeman

They should teach the truth about the Cannabis plant and marijuana use. That's what the fuck they need to teach in school, like in health and classes that deal with plants or something :).

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